The number of older persons aged 60 years or older has increased by almost 40% in the last decade

Read our most recent report 'Older Persons and Community Care in Namibia' to understand what this means:
Report: lnkd.in/dsWBhaFC
Brief: lnkd.in/dZNECicd

Ageing out-of-place refers to the experience of growing older in an unfamiliar environment.

We invited experts to address the unique challenges that this can present, in our upcoming 'Ageing Well ' film.

Stay tuned!

Interested in understanding global differences in outcomes after femur fractures? Join the team! birmingham.ac.uk/research/appli… Kathryn Chu Jean Claude BYIRINGIRO Abebe Bekele, MD Equi Injury King's Global Health Partnerships

Exploring the connection between #HealthyAgeing and embracing your younger self 🍂

Our upcoming #AgeingWell Film will investigate this and other critical issues through creative storytelling , insights and expert perspectives!!

We r looking for someone to develop a toolkit for delivery of integrated HIV and SRH services drawing from findings of our chiedza trial. DM for r email me if you r interested ⁦MARCH Centre, LSHTM⁩ ⁦London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine⁩ ⁦THRU_ZIM⁩

Our #GlobalAdvancedFellowship is open for applications. This £750,000 award will fund:
1️⃣ A research project
2️⃣ Training and development
3️⃣ Institutional capacity strengthening
The award is for post-doctoral researchers at all levels.
Apply: nihr.ac.uk/funding/nihr-g…

Congratulations to all New Investigators at the Osteoporosis IOF in London, especially Dr Hannah Wilson and Tafadzwa Madanhire from the Global Health and Ageing Research team THRU_ZIM and University of Bristol !
Great work on Fractures, Growth, Vit D metabolism and more!

1,612 million RAND a year - estimated public health costs of hip fractures in South Africa ($85m)

Dr Nyasha Mafirakureva presenting Osteoporosis IOF from Wellcome #Fractures -E3 study. Important new data.

Nyashadzaishe Mafirakureva
NOFSA
The University of Sheffield

🥳 Congratulations Grace!
Fabulous to have such support for development of geriatric medicine training resources in Zimbabwe.
Many thanks to Trust Zaranyika

#HealthyAgeing
THRU_ZIM
BRistol Medical School (BRMS) Research

Diabetes associated neuropathy, rather than retinopathy or CKD, responsible for increased fracture risk - data presented by Mohamad Nasser Osteoporosis IOF conference today. Fascinating data. Great to have Mohamad Nasser join our group BRistol Medical School (BRMS) Research

🦴 IV zoledronate in the days just after #hipfracture should be 1st line treatment for osteoporosis

🌟 Consensus statement from UK & Ireland

🔗 academic.oup.com/ageing/article…

Join our upcoming Femur webinars, scheduled for the 7th and 9th of May 2024, at 14:00 SAST! Don't miss out on this information session and Q&A opportunity.

Register now
Link for the 7th May:
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/ae6bb8f0…
Link for the 9th May:
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/6b1b1b3b…

Come and join our team in Southampton. An exciting NIHR Southampton BRC funded post. Job Opportunity at the University of Southampton: Research Fellow in Musculoskeletal Epidemiology jobs.soton.ac.uk/2671724AF BRS ASBMR Beth Curtis

Thanks Kassim Javaid
And here are the tools for all to use!

theros.org.uk/healthcare-pro…

Good to be reminded that orthogeriatricians save lives at BRS Oxford Clinical training course by Celia Gregson Falls & Fragility Fracture Audit Programme . Need more orthopaedic surgeons for next years course!

Sad to be leaving #Harare today, I’ll miss the blue skies ☀️, but most of all my new friends from Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals and THRU_ZIM - Exciting collaborations ahead with Pamela, Charlotte, and Trust Zaranyika developing #geriatrics healthcare and teaching 🇿🇼🥰💕 All thanks to Celia Gregson

Wonderful lecture on #ageing at UofZimbabwe Faculty Medicine - frailty, ageism, senescence, and much more from Dr Dr Grace Pearson 🇺🇦💙🇪🇺 (she/her) Poignant questions from the audience. Flying the flag for geriatrics in Zimbabwe! #ZimGen
THRU_ZIM
NIHR Global Health
Complex Medicine in Older People @ BristolUni

So interesting to hear the views of older men and women in Zimbabwe about our plans developing #healthy #ageing checks focusing on functional ability in the #KOSHESAI study - building on World Health Organization (WHO) #ICOPE

NIHR Global Health
World Health Organization (WHO)_Zimbabwe
@ZimAlzheimersAssociation